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Not too difficult but a very realistic test for game winning combinations. Black to move and mate in 5.

Black to move and mate in 5.

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Black to move and mate in 5.

Black to move and mate in 5.

Winning Chess Moves: Mayet vs. Anderssen, 1851

You are playing the role of the quintessential Romantic, Adolf Anderssen. Karl Mayet has just played the dreadful 12. Qxe4. How does Anderssen (Black) punish his opponents in dramatic fashion?

Black to move and mate in 5 (Mayet – Anderssen, Berlin 1851).

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A well placed knight can be quite lethal. Black to move and mate in 5.

Black to move and mate in 5.

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Black to move and mate in 5.

Black to move and mate in 5.

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Black to move and mate in 5 (Gilles Andruet vs. Boris Spassky, Bundesliga 1988).

Black to move and mate in 5 (Gilles Andruet vs. Boris Spassky, Bundesliga 1988).

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Black to move and mate in 5 (Paul Keres – Tigran Petrosian, Yugoslavia 1959).

Black to move and mate in 5 (Paul Keres – Tigran Petrosian, Yugoslavia 1959).

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White to move and mate in 5.

White to move and mate in 5. (Ernesto Inarkiev – Mikhael Mchedlishvili, 2017 FIDE World Cup)

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White to move and mate in 5.

Blake – Hooke, London 1923 (mate in 5)

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White to move and mate in 5.

White to move and mate in 5.